I've been reading this book for the last few days - it is way above what you expect these days for a technical book from a popular publisher in terms of its description of underlying data structures and algorithms. It's also easy to read. The depth of a text book with the approachability of a typical working programmer's book.
The topical overview certainly sounds interesting, but sounds extremely similar to Designing Data Intensive Applications which also covers modern DB internals.
There is some overlap, but they complement each other. This one (Database Internals) has much more of a technical deep dive on storage engines, especially B-tree implementation details.
If I was mentoring someone learning this stuff, I'd advise reading Designing Data Intensive Applications first, which is certainly the best for giving the big picture, and follow up with this one for more detail on certain topics.
Given the previous dearth of books on this important subject, I think it's wonderful that we have two.
Database Design and Implementation by Edward Sciore implements a fully working relational database from buffer manager up to parser and beyond. It's very much in the spirit of Tanenbaum's OS book.
Author here. Thanks for the heads up, it did look a bit bleak on the mobile. Increased the font size, made grey much more dark, and increased heading sizes. Hope it's easier to read now!
Database internals books are not worth reading if you want to work on implementing real world database engines. You are better off checking out internals and documentation of various implementations and also research papers in that field. And you would be doing your own research anyway.
But if you are just starting out in programming, it's probably as good book as any to learn something new and practical about algorithms and data structures.
Is this a full fee paid course for on campus students?
Because if it is, I would be miffed and feel short changed to be told to watch youtube lectures on my own time. I value face to face time and interactivity with my professor or lecturer. If this is a heavily discounted course due to the crippled way it is taught then I have no issue.
From the syllabus:
CS144 is taught using a combination of lectures and videos. In previous years, it was entirely “flipped”; i.e. all the lecture material was taught by videos. This year things are different and we are going to mix things up: Some weeks, including the first week, will be based on recorded videos that you are required to watch in your own time. We will call these Video Weeks. Other weeks, including the second week, are based entirely on in-class lectures, and you don’t need to watch any videos. We will call these Lecture-only Weeks. So why mix things up? We are teaching this way because we have found that some of the material (e.g. the basic principles you learn in week 1) are most efficiently learned by watching videos - the concepts are fairly simple and the material is descriptive; a video is a more efficient use of your time. Other material, such as when you learn about congestion control in week 4, is best learned in person, interactively in a lecture.
playing_colours|6 years ago
Designing Data-Intensive Applications https://dataintensive.net/
Streaming Systems http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920073994.do
and this one.
zarkov99|6 years ago
burlesona|6 years ago
chrisseaton|6 years ago
manigandham|6 years ago
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA
zerr|6 years ago
elamje|6 years ago
What’s the sell here?
libraryofbabel|6 years ago
If I was mentoring someone learning this stuff, I'd advise reading Designing Data Intensive Applications first, which is certainly the best for giving the big picture, and follow up with this one for more detail on certain topics.
Given the previous dearth of books on this important subject, I think it's wonderful that we have two.
jolmg|6 years ago
I haven't seen the book you mentioned, so I can't comment on that.
HappyJoy|6 years ago
Here's the landing page for the book's implementation: http://www.cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html
Unfortunately, I don't think the book is in print anymore.
abhinaba1|6 years ago
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mesaframe|6 years ago
What makes this book so much better?
zzzcpan|6 years ago
Database internals books are not worth reading if you want to work on implementing real world database engines. You are better off checking out internals and documentation of various implementations and also research papers in that field. And you would be doing your own research anyway.
But if you are just starting out in programming, it's probably as good book as any to learn something new and practical about algorithms and data structures.
alfiedotwtf|6 years ago
commandersaki|6 years ago
Because if it is, I would be miffed and feel short changed to be told to watch youtube lectures on my own time. I value face to face time and interactivity with my professor or lecturer. If this is a heavily discounted course due to the crippled way it is taught then I have no issue.
From the syllabus:
CS144 is taught using a combination of lectures and videos. In previous years, it was entirely “flipped”; i.e. all the lecture material was taught by videos. This year things are different and we are going to mix things up: Some weeks, including the first week, will be based on recorded videos that you are required to watch in your own time. We will call these Video Weeks. Other weeks, including the second week, are based entirely on in-class lectures, and you don’t need to watch any videos. We will call these Lecture-only Weeks. So why mix things up? We are teaching this way because we have found that some of the material (e.g. the basic principles you learn in week 1) are most efficiently learned by watching videos - the concepts are fairly simple and the material is descriptive; a video is a more efficient use of your time. Other material, such as when you learn about congestion control in week 4, is best learned in person, interactively in a lecture.
jrockway|6 years ago
Those that don't need the piece of paper can learn for free. Who can complain about that!
mesaframe|6 years ago